Ursula von Rydingsvard Exhibition Guide

One of America’s most inventive and individual artists, with work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, among others, von Rydingsvard has evolved a distinctive, highly personal sculptural language that has become synonymous with cedar, the wood that lies at the heart of her practice.

The first large-scale exhibition in Europe by highly acclaimed American artist Ursula von Rydingsvard illustrated the full scope of von Rydingsvard’s diverse practice and included more than 40 works of drawing and sculpture made over the last two decades.

This exhibition guide was produced to coincide with the major 2014 - 15 exhibition, Von Rydingsvard typically works in cedar wood, a material she has used for the majority of her career and whose properties she now knows intimately. Some of her large-scale works in different materials are actually made first in cedar and then cast, so that the qualities of the wood can be seen and felt through another medium.